Raising environmental responsibility and sustainability for sport events: A systematic review
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Sotiriadou, Popi
Hill, Brad
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2015
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Sport events and associated venues impose a significant impact on the environment.
Athletes, coaches, officials, athletes’ entourage, and spectators travel to sport competitions
using planes, trains, buses and cars. This inherent travel component results in greenhouse
gases and has a significant impact on climate change. Sport event merchandise, sporting
goods and equipment produce a plethora of products that require natural resources. All of
these, and many more sport event related activities, have environmental consequences such
as waste production, land, air and water pollution, and deterioration of the natural
environment. ...
View more >Sport events and associated venues impose a significant impact on the environment. Athletes, coaches, officials, athletes’ entourage, and spectators travel to sport competitions using planes, trains, buses and cars. This inherent travel component results in greenhouse gases and has a significant impact on climate change. Sport event merchandise, sporting goods and equipment produce a plethora of products that require natural resources. All of these, and many more sport event related activities, have environmental consequences such as waste production, land, air and water pollution, and deterioration of the natural environment. New ways of encouraging environmentally responsible practices and climate change mitigation are globally emerging with efforts to construct sport event venues with materials that cause minimal harm to the environment, choose environmentally friendly airconditioning facilities and utilise renewable energy resources. However, these efforts represent the beginning of a long journey to establishing benchmarks and encourage changes in event manager’s and event consumer’s behaviours toward environmentally friendly sport events and venues. This special issue advances dissemination of research output in this critical and under-researched field and contributes to our theoretical and empirical understanding of the environmental issues of sport events and their management.
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View more >Sport events and associated venues impose a significant impact on the environment. Athletes, coaches, officials, athletes’ entourage, and spectators travel to sport competitions using planes, trains, buses and cars. This inherent travel component results in greenhouse gases and has a significant impact on climate change. Sport event merchandise, sporting goods and equipment produce a plethora of products that require natural resources. All of these, and many more sport event related activities, have environmental consequences such as waste production, land, air and water pollution, and deterioration of the natural environment. New ways of encouraging environmentally responsible practices and climate change mitigation are globally emerging with efforts to construct sport event venues with materials that cause minimal harm to the environment, choose environmentally friendly airconditioning facilities and utilise renewable energy resources. However, these efforts represent the beginning of a long journey to establishing benchmarks and encourage changes in event manager’s and event consumer’s behaviours toward environmentally friendly sport events and venues. This special issue advances dissemination of research output in this critical and under-researched field and contributes to our theoretical and empirical understanding of the environmental issues of sport events and their management.
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Journal Title
International Journal of Event Management Research
Volume
10
Issue
1
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Subject
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
Commercial Services
Tourism